Graham is the world banjo champion; he can throw a banjo
further than anyone else!

Fiddle Castro plays the fiddle and has
three times won the national bluegrass fiddle championship.

Biggles
were formed way back in the heady flower power years of the late sixties and have
been entertaining audiences in various ways and with different line-ups ever since.
Three of the current line-up and most of the jokes have been with the band since
the beginning.

Biggles have played at innumerable festivals to wide acclaim,
most notably, three times at Glastonbury. There have been several TV and radio
appearances but the band has never played at a Barmitzvah.

A
previous incarnation of Biggles with the great Dick on Sousaphone:

Bands
top 10 achievements

1969. Telling the Oldham Tinkers to
**** off.

1974. Getting through customs at Rotterdam without
passports.

1974. Getting through customs (the return trip)
at Harwich without being caught with a smuggled home-made mandolin.

1976. The last band to play at Sinatras before the fire.
Band gear undamaged. Band members unscathed.

1982. Banned
from Cleveleys for playing on the sea front. Irate pensioners verbally and very
gently attack the police. Biggles coach is escorted by the police from the
borough to county boundary.

1988. First band to set fire
to a stage in Denton.

1066. Defeat of Harolds army
at the battle of Hastings (Steve couldnt do this one. Little Sam stood in).

1999. Guinness Book of Records entry for least number of people
in an audience. Middlewich Canal and Folk Festival Organizers Annual
Bash.

1998. Discovery of penicillin (in Jakes Rucsack).

1999. First band to play in a completely solar powered environment.
Amplified, lit and auditorium lighting all solar powered (Glastonbury Festival)

Biggles Profile

If the band line up in the
order that they stand on stage, and shine a light from the left onto a blank wall,
making sure that Graham holds up his banjo and Jok keeps his tambourine at arms
length, the shadow (or profile) they produce is a large fish with a hat on.

Member Profile

This is pretty similar throughout the band.

Another
previous incarnation of Biggles with Trevor James:

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the photos for a larger image

A parable from Father Green:

Some extracts from
our guest book:

I really enjoyed watching them although I did not really
understand most of it. I think they are very nice. I particularly liked the bit
where they played music. I would definitely like to be taken to see them again.
All the best, pp David Beckham (a football player).

What
a wonderful night! If I had to pick a favourite, I would plump for the sousaphone
player. He stood out as solid, upright, genuine and talented musician who is obviously
a credit to the fatherland. We need more people like this to stamp out the insidious
decline that is characterized by todays popular music. Keep up the good
work, yours etc. David Irvine.

Not bad, but I have
seen all this before. Nostradamus AD1503 to 1566 (in uncharacteristically
un-enigmatic style)

Their contribution to Womens
Week was invaluable. Thank you once again! But next year, please leave out the
Knitting Competition for the Wives. Kissy kissy, G. Greer. MA Oxon. BrA.

OK. They are all right. I tell you. I enjoyed them. But that's not the
point . The point is they are run by the establishment. I laugh, Im off
my guard. Anything could happen. All their stuff is written by MI6. Look. That
bit about Auntie May. That wasnt Auntie May! I have proof. Its all
in code. They mean Princess Di. Its obvious. I got my people on them now.
They won't be a trouble to me much longer. Mohammed Al Fayed.